Current Media Coverage
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Clarity Systems launches budgeting, planning and reporting for Lawyers
FSN - Mar 2008
Clarity Systems, a supplier of corporate performance management solutions, has launched Clarity 6 Legal Edition 2.0, a newly enhanced budgeting, planning, and reporting software solution for professional services organisations.
Automate SEC Filings
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Feb 2008
Clarity Systems partners with EDGARfilings to offer a seamlessly integrated financial reporting solution.
Clarity Systems and EDGARfilings partner to automate SEC Filings
FSN - Dec 2007
"With compliance and financial reporting requirements being top of mind for companies, adopting software solutions to streamline the process is a high priority," says Andrew Neblett, CEO, EDGARfilings.
Toronto's Clarity Systems partners to ease SEC filing
ComputerWorld Canada - Nov 2007
Filing for the SEC is taking on new prominence in many enterprise firms, including those with Canadian subsidiaries, as Sarbanes-Oxley and other rules have heightened governance processes.
Clarity Partners with EDGARfilings on Financial Reporting Solution
TMCnet.com - Nov 2007
This partnership lets public companies "create SEC reports using Clarity Financial Statement Reporting and electronically file these reports with the SEC using EDGARizer software," Clarity and EDGARfilings officials say.
Clarity Systems and EDGARfilings Announce Partnership
Business Intelligence Network - Nov 2007
This partnership is an exciting opportunity for public companies as they can now create SEC reports using Clarity FSR and electronically file these reports with the SEC using EDGARizer software.
Clarity Systems Reports Record Year-End 2007 Results
FSN - Nov 2007
Clarity Systems, one of the few remaining providers of CPM solutions, has announced record results for the company's full fiscal year, ending September 30, 2007.
Clarity Announces Year-End Results, '100 Percent' License Growth
TMCnet.com - Nov 2007
Clarity officials say there was "significant growth" in its customer base across North America and the United Kingdom, with such additions as Intel Corporation, JetBlue Airways, F5 Networks, Orlando Aviation Authority, Russell Stover Candies, and EMS Technologies.
Caveat Emptor: The Impact of Vendor Consolidation on BPM Buyers
Business Intelligence Network - Oct 2007
BPM Partners Vice President names Clarity Systems a leading vendor in the Corporate Performance Management & Business Intelligence market.
SAP goes head to head with Oracle leaving other independents with a clear field
FSN - Oct 2007
Clarity Systems continues to flourish as an independent software house trading on the quality of its domain knowledge and ability to deliver more nimbly than some of its larger competitors.
Taking Care of Business
CIO Canada - Oct 2007
Since building a BI tool for sales people to view their performance on a daily basis, “there isn’t a rep around who doesn’t get up in the morning, log on from home, and see how they did against their sales targets of the day before,” says John Melodysta, CAO at Grand & Toy.
Budgeting Software Grows Up
Accounting Technology - Sept 2007
Accounting Technology proves that spreadsheets are a thing of the past and budgeting software like Clarity 6 - with its strong Excel look and feel, workflow control, and versioning of budgets - is the way of the future.
Provide Your Own Quarterly Guidance
TechnoLawyer Newswire - Aug 2007
Clarity 6 Legal Edition's collaboration tools should appeal to many law firms. They provide real-time collaboration out of the box, including regional updates. It will track timekeeper activities and monitor the entire budget submission process.
Get 'Em Hooked
Housing Giants Magazine - Aug 2007
Paul Hill, COO of Clarity Systems, has approximately a dozen inside and outside salespeople and says Clarity’s key to retention is their appeal to salespeople’s entrepreneurial aspirations.
What's Hot This Summer
CFO Magazine - Aug 2007
An outside observer might read a description of the statutory reporting program and dismiss it as no big deal. But to finance-department staffers who manually crank out reams of reports for regulators, Clarity FSR is a godsend.
7 Steps to Better Budgeting: Implement your software Using Best Practices
Facility Management Journal - July 2007
A successful finance department requires an efficient and effective planning and forecasting cycle, which, in turn, requires having a reliable budgeting and forecasting software solution in place.
Grand & Toy gets business performance clarity
ComputerWorld Canada - July 2007
John Melodysta, chief administrative officer at Grand & Toy, said that using Clarity solutions for KPI reporting, identifying order defections, combating sales divergence, and even revamping their payroll system, has helped ROI as well as the company’s overall efficiency.
Exclusive Interview with Frank Pizzolato
Business Intelligence Network - June 2007
Frank Pizzolato discusses the critical importance of performance management and explains how Clarity 6 offers the flexibility, security and control needed to make informed business decisions and meet compliance requirements.
Clarity Systems launches new version of CPM with Clarity 6.1
FSN - June 2007
The latest version of Clarity software includes tighter Microsoft Office Integration so that users can now move Clarity reports from the web into MS-Excel, MS-Word and MS-PowerPoint and can launch and refresh Clarity reports from inside MS-Office applications.
Software to Close By
Business Finance - June 2007
Clarity 6 recognized as an application that will help financial departments streamline and speed up their closing processes.
Clarity Systems Announces Clarity 6.1
DM Review - May 2007
The new features of Clarity 6.1 gives organizations enhanced capabilities for improving corporate performance across the enterprise.
Oracle and Hyperion versus SAP and OutlookSoft
FSN - May 2007
CEO Frank Pizzolato weighs in on the recent acquisitions in the competitive ERP landscape and explains how these changes will have a positive impact on Clarity Systems.
Omron brings clarity to its financials
Plant Magazine - May 2007
When Omron Healthcare signed on with Clarity Systems five years ago, web-based systems were on the cutting edge and for the adventurous. Today they are critical to saving time and money.
Clarity Systems joins Oracle PartnerNetwork
FSN - May 2007
Clarity Systems has joined the Oracle PartnerNetwork and will support Oracle Database 10g. The announcement formalises a long standing relationship with Oracle and extends Clarity's policy of multi-platform support, which includes the popular Essbase database.
Unified system brings Clarity to Grand & Toy’s forecasting
Stores - May 2007
Imagine a software solution so comprehensive and integrated that everyone from top executives to commercial sales reps could view any aspect of the company’s performance. Leading Canadian office products supplier Grand & Toy has been doing just that for years, and company executives say the Clarity Systems software has taken performance management to a whole new level.
Customer care portal
ComputerWorld Canada - April 2007
Toronto’s Clarity Systems has launched Clarity Customer Care, an online customer self service portal designed to help customers maximize the value of their CPM investments.
Southwest Airlines Selects Clarity Systems
Business Intelligence Network - Apr 2007
Southwest Airlines has selected Clarity 6 software as a single integrated solution for corporate planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting.
Clarity Systems Launches New Web-based Customer Portal
Align Journal - Apr 2007
By leveraging salesforce.com’s technology, the new customer portal will improve case turnaround time by operating as a full-time, online customer support and information delivery center. The result will be greater efficiency and flexibility for customers.
New Products - Tails and Dogs
Accounting Today/WebCPA - Apr 2007
As everyone knows, the ultimate purpose of any business is the production of financial statements. Factories are built, employees hired, capital invested, and the entire machinery of modern business called into play solely to facilitate the creation of 10Ks, 10Qs and the like. So why, Clarity Systems asks, is the "last mile" of reporting so difficult?
Exclusive Interview with Brad Mauvais of AIMCO
Business Intelligence Network - Apr 2007
Brad Mauvais explains why AIMCO needed a performance management solution, describes why they chose a web-based solution to feed property budgets, capital planning and payroll data into a centralized repository, and highlights the benefits received.
Maximize Business Performance: 2007 Core Business Performance Management Vendors
DM Review - Apr 2007
This is BPM Partners' second annual look at the core business performance management (BPM) vendors. Clarity Systems is listed as one of the top nine vendors in the BPM space.
Clarity Systems Announces New Customer Self-Serve Portal
TMCnet.com - Apr 2007
The new portal streamlines the case management process, allowing users to log, update and track their support cases while retrieving information from and contributing information to the Clarity Systems knowledge base.
Clarity Systems Launches New Web-Based Customer Portal
DM Review - Apr 2007
Clarity's new customer care portal will improve case turnaround time by operating as a full-time, online customer support and information delivery center.
Clarity Systems Launches Clarity Customer Care
Business Intelligence Network - Apr 2007
Clarity Customer Care is designed to help customers maximize the value of their corporate performance management investment.
Clarity Systems provides online customer self service portal
itbusiness.ca - Apr 2007
Clarity Systems announced the availability of Clarity Customer Care - an online customer self service portal designed to help customers maximize the value of their CPM investment.
Clarity Systems announces the availability of Clarity Customer Care
TMCnet.com - Apr 2007
Clarity Customer Care, a "new online customer self service portal" for customers, integrates with Salesforce, Clarity's customer relationship management and case management tool, for customer access to data regarding their account.
Bringing Clarity to Corporate Performance Management
ITWorldCanada.com - Apr 2007
Knight Frank LLP say benefits from deploying Clarity 6, include quicker data processing, faster planning of departmental budgets, as well as increased flexibility, security and visibility.
Performance Management – what are the risks and rewards of a unified application?
FSN - Apr 2007
While there are benefits to bringing together Performance Management applications onto a single platform, it is important to understand the level of integration you need between the various elements that comprise a fully-functional solution.
Office Supply Firm's Performance is a Work in Progress
Intelligent Enterprise - Mar 2007
More than three years ago Grand & Toy launched performance management applications for product-sales analysis and budgeting, and it has since built applications for the supply chain, call centers, retail stores, CRM, commercial sales and vital accounts, among other areas.
Why Forecasting is coming of age
FSN - Mar 2007
Not every journey proceeds according to plan - frequent, timely updates of what lies ahead are needed to avoid the obstacles that lay in wait.
Special Report on BPM: Seeking Performance Metrics
CIO Decisions - Mar 2007
Business performance management can be especially beneficial to growing midmarket firms. This special report explores how BPM is making inroads at midmarket companies, like Clarity Systems' customer HOLT CAT, and how it can bring benefits to your firm.
Budgeting: Is there Method in the Madness?
FSN - Mar 2007
Budgeting appears a straightforward and worthy exercise on the surface but the process can become dysfunctional if organizations don’t have a clear focus.
New Product News
DM Review - Feb 2007
Using Clarity FSR, reports are dynamically driven from a central database, while leveraging the formatting capabilities of MS-Word - allowing for the production of formatted reports with the appropriate commentary and supplementary notes.
Easing the Pain of Financial Reporting
Wall Street & Technology - Feb 2007
At most Wall Street firms, the preparing of quarterly and annual reports is a tense, stressful time of Excel files being emailed back and forth and behind-closed-door meetings at which financial numbers are presented, reviewed and approved.
What tools are you planning on?
FSN - Feb 2007
Planning may be central to Performance Management, but how much of a focus is it for Performance Management systems and the people that implement them?
Tackling financial reporting’s “last mile”
ComputerWorld Canada - Feb 2007
Toronto’s Clarity Systems has launched Clarity Financial Statement Reporting, a tool where external reports are dynamically driven from a central database.
Interview with Frank Pizzolato, CEO Clarity Systems
FSN - Jan 2007
Clarity's CEO, Frank Pizzolato, talks to Gary Simon, FSN's managing editor, about his vision for performance management and the opportunities he sees for providers in the market.
Annual Business Performance Management Software Buyers Guide
Business Finance - Jan 2007
This BPM software buyers guide highlights Clarity Systems' improved workflow, security and embedded metadata management.
